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  1. Seen it a hundred times at least. on Yahoo Ordered to Show How It Recovered 'Deleted' Emails (pcmag.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some exec says they can't recover anything deleted from the servers until one of the sysadmins points out that the server backup archives don't process these deletion requests retroactively.

  2. Only Apps App Appers! on Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Where is that "APPS!" guy when you need him?

  3. The sins of the fathers will lead to punishment of their children, and children's children, even unto the 3rd and 4th generations. Its always been so. We can't change that part.

    Besides, think of the BILLIONS being subjected to higher-than-legally-allowed doses of carcinogens, and who will continue to be punished thusly for centuries now, simply for being born on the same planet that Volkswagen exist on.

    And no, I don't think VW is the only car company that deserves punishment here.

  4. Since Volkswagen is *not* an American company, they're immune to bailout protection.

  5. (Oh, and before you jump into the "but the other car companies are doing it too certainly!" argument, you'd better believe we're coming after them next.)

  6. That assumes that we'd be better off with VW than without, which seems to be logically fallacious on your part because it assumes two things that have clearly been proven untrue just within the scope of this discussion: 1) that anyone besides hired astro-turfing drones like you gives a shit if this bankrupts some shitty abusive foreign company over their illegal practices, and 2) that VW hasn't been actively harming consumers just by existing.

  7. Re:Political motivation? on Volkswagen Sued For Violating State Environmental Statutes With Dieselgate (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is pretty smart. I wish I had mod points for you today.

  8. Re:Pierce the corporate veil on Volkswagen Sued For Violating State Environmental Statutes With Dieselgate (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I don't think anyone said that the flagrant level of wrongdoing here should be treated unlike other formulaically similar situations, which are off-topic, but nonetheless also had parties fully deserving of being prosecuted directly as individuals, who also still largely have not faced justice. I don't think anyone is saying that at all. You may be confused because they're not talking about stuff that is off topic.

  9. Ok great now where is my flying commuter-car that folds out of a briefcase? Get on it now, please.

  10. Cute argument but flawed. on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically they seem to assume retail pricing on everything from housing to commodities, ignoring the fact that most of those prices are inflated artificially by the "free hand" of the market. The "free hand" of the market is currently working to optimize maximum movement of currency per transaction, rather than a maximum amount of transactions. And this is surprisingly simple to fix, too, though it scares the shit out of greedy rich people and business owners enough that some of them will probably even reply to this message to claim its not possible to do.

  11. Its hilarious to watch these idiots thrash about and waste millions trying to one-up each other and their imaginary fears of whatever Nintendo will do next year, all the while systematically screwing over their core constituency and early adopters who clearly must all suffer from Stockholm Syndrome by now.

  12. +1 underrated

  13. Re:Demise of location based games on Pokemon Game Adds $7.5 Billion To Nintendo Market Value In Two Days (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In LA we throw parties in the cemeteries. The dead become angry if they are forgotten, but they're never opposed to being a source of happiness for the living.

  14. Re:Who would have ever thought? :-p on Pokemon Game Adds $7.5 Billion To Nintendo Market Value In Two Days (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    [proceeds to list their biggest hits, and one console made by an entirely different company]

    Heh, troll harder kid.

  15. Who would have ever thought? :-p on Pokemon Game Adds $7.5 Billion To Nintendo Market Value In Two Days (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    (Other than anyone who has been paying attention to Nintendo and has seen them do it repeatedly.)

  16. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    (This response was meant to go to your parent post, not sure if it glitched or if I clicked the wrong link.)

  17. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't find it right now, but the citation actually refutes his assertion; Vegetarians suffer higher incidence of thyroid disorders and mental instability.

  18. Re:++devuan.... however... on Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you deserved to be modded down for this.

  19. Re:Is ruled a suicide now? on Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its pretty suspicious, though I believe the ruling of a suicide could be technically correct still if its true that the cops were harassing him or abusing him and managed to drive him to it because of his already agitated mental state. Without a good video of what really happened we're never going to actually know.

    My advice? Stay under the radar or you'll find out exactly what happened, but you probably won't live to tell us about it. People who spend "alone time" with the cops these days are starting to turn up dead too often.

  20. And the soul vacated Debian moments later. on Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Debian is dead. The people left in charge have no scruples left and sold out to Red Hat, in a vain attempt to gain some material or organizational wealth from the now-inevitable buyout by Microsoft. Ian's work will be preserved though.

  21. Re:In my opinion they should be recalling them... on More Than 500,000 Hoverboards Recalled Because of Fire Hazards (go.com) · · Score: 1

    For the record, I never approved of peanuts either.

  22. In my opinion they should be recalling them... on More Than 500,000 Hoverboards Recalled Because of Fire Hazards (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... because they can't hover.

  23. So cool too! on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I am totally jealous.

  24. Re:Not just network service; cable tv too. on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Well in the US I suspect its due to those parts of the spectrum more useful for such things being already tied up by existing cellular providers who are either squatting on it (doing nothing, perhaps waiting to resell it after it accumulates value unused for a few decades) or else do provide such services, but at really rather more cost for the equivalent bandwidth.

  25. Not just network service; cable tv too. on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Time Warner has got an almost complete stranglehold on the residential market in LA due to these shady anti-competitive actions. All they have to do is convince the landlord to agree to claim that new network service installs would leave unnecessary extra holes in the walls (even when its not true, though usually this is technically true.)